The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-06-03
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News.

Summary Of the Daily News.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
In response to Q letter from the attorneys
81 the Willamette Valley & Cascade Noun
tain Wagon Road Company asking that
patents be issued to that company for lands
amounting to 143,6 l4 acres, the Secretary Of
the Interior replied that there was state
ment setting forth facts tending to show
that said wagon road had never been con-
structed, and that the Governor Of Oregon
was induced to certify to the completion Of
the road by false representations.
THE counting Of the money in the treas
ury preparatory to turning it over to the
new Treasurer, Hyatt, began on the 2Sd.
MICHAEL TRAIN, q messenger in the
Treasury Department at Washington, re-
floor of that building, distance of over
fifty feet, and was instantly killed.
The Presidents reception on the after
noon Of the 25th was attended by about
800 persons.
The President has celebrated the ami
versary Of his wedding by pardoning few
prisoners. One of them was of q person
charged with heinous crime in the Dis
trict, the evidence as to whose guilt was
never clear to the prosecuting officers, who
have certified that fact to the Attorney
General The person, it is now claimed, is
innocent He had suffered long time in
Jail
The color line trouble cropped out in the
National Parade at " ashingtOn on the 18th,
two colored companies Of Virginia being
placed ahead Of the Vicksburg Southrons.
H. j. RAMsDELI, one Of the most brilliant
writers c. Washington, a biographer Of
Blaine and one Of the latter's intimate
friends, died very suddenly on the 25th.
WHEN the last call for the condition of
national banks was issued by the Comp
tToller of the Currency, notice was given
that - every instance of failure to forward
a report within the limit of time fine
would be imposed. Because of delinquency
in this respect. several banks have incurred
the penalty which will be assessed by the
Comptroller.
The President has appointed Henry F.
Downing, Of New York, to be United States
Consul at st. Paul de la Onda, Portugal,
and Edward j. Hill, of North Carolina, to
be United States Consul at Montevideo.
THE Treasury department has received
information of the prevalence of pleuro-
pneumonia to somewhat alarming extent
IN Scotland among neat cattle The impor-
tation of neat cattle and the hides of neat
cattle from that country has been prohlb-
tied.
THE United States Supreme Court did
not render decision in any of the tele-
phone cases, as expected, on the 9th. The
record in the case weighed 300 pounds.
THE EAST.
GENERAL ADRIAN S. DURYEA, the old Zou-
ave commander, was stricken down by
paralysis at New York the other day. His
mind was not affected and the shock was not
expected to prove fatal
A NEW railroad deal, in which the Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe is interested, is I'M
der way in New York. Itincludes the pur-
chase Of the st. Louis & Chicago railroad,
making direct connection with the Atchi-
son and Lake Erie & Western. This would
give the Atchison a through line from Chi
cago to st. Louis, and make its system en-
tirely independent.
JAY GOULD, Russell Sage, Frederick L.
Ames, John T. Terry and General T. T.
Eckert have been reelected directors of
the American Telegraph & Cable Com
pany, New York.
SEVERAL, fiotous coke workers in the Con
ntlsville, PA, region have been arrested.
EDMUND VoN TILLY, professor of Ian.
guages in a commercial college in New
York City committed suicide the other day,
leaving note that his body should be Gre
mated.
THE thirteenth annual convention of the
Young Mems Catholic Union of the United
States took place at New York on the 18th.
The delegates numbered 400.
DISTRICT Assembly 49, of New York, has
''spotters" employed on the Third avenue
surface road at q remunerative salary to
discover the business men who patronize
the road. Notes are then sent to them
warning them that they are injuring their
business, and advising them to ride on
some other road.
QUEEN KAPIoLANI and Princess Lilinoka-
loani and their suite sailed from New York
on the 18th for Europe on the steamer City
of Rome.
IT is said that the Pennsylvania road in
TENDS to obtain entrance to New York City
at central point by tunneling the Hudson
river.
REV. RICHARD NEWTON, d. D., the distin-
guished Protestant-Episcopal clergyman,
died at his residence at Chestnut hill, Phil
adelphia, on the 25th.
THE twenty ninth General Assembly Of
the United Presbyterian Church of North
America began at Philadelphia on the Goth
with about 800 delegates, comprising an
equal number of ministers and laymen,
present.
The Supreme Court of Buffalo, n Y,
has ordered the foreclosure for $50, 600 Of
the mortgage against the New York, Chi
cago & st. Louis railroad.
JUDGE BEACH, of the New York Supreme
Court, has appointed a commission to in
quire into the sanity of Dundas Dick. the
patent medicine manufacturer. Mr.. Dick
was arrested in Brooklyn some weeks ago
as he was announcing himself tn the public
to be Jesus Christ He has been in the
Bloomingdale asylum since his arrest.
GEORGE A. BIRCH & Co., wholesale gro
GERS and commission merchants Of Albany,
N. Y, q house Of old and prominent stand
ing, have made an assignment. The prefer
ence amounts to $6S,OO0.
THE eleventh biennial session of the gen.
eral council Of the Reformed Episcopal
Church opened at Philadelphia on the 25th |
BIZ an explosion of gas in mine at Nanti- |
coke, Pa, in which twenty-six men were |
killed in December, 1856, three laborers.
were fatally burned recently. Il
The Belt Line stables and seventy-five |
dwellings at Tenth avenue and Fifty-third |
street, New York, burned early on the |
morning Of the 9th. 1t was thought that |
no lives were lost, but the property do 4
stroyed was said to be over 81, OOO,OOo
F. c. SNITR, the attorney of the Law and |